Roald Amundsen Polar Explorer Cold Recall Exhibition
1 November 2011 - 30 November 2011
Athy Heritage Centre – Museum Hosts Roald Amundsen Polar Explorer Cold Recall Exhibition For the month of November 2011
The exhibition was developed by the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway to showcase images from the lantern slides that Roald Amundsen used in public lectures about his expeditions through the Northwest Passage and to the South Pole with particular emphasis on Amundsen's expedition to the South Pole. The texts in the exhibition are primarily abridged versions of Amundsen’s own manuscripts from these lectures. The exhibition is also complemented by Amundsen material from a number of private collections